April 2010
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March 2010
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Southern Hospitality - Twelve 12’s - 2009 from Cosmo Baker at Letsmix.com.
Some funk for your Tuesday.
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Today's fun fact
Lord British, apparently, claimed the moon in his name after purchasing ownership rights to the Lunokhod 2 lunar probe from a Russian aeronautical company in 1993.
I purchased Lunakod 21 [sic] from the Russians. I am now the world’s only private owner of an object on a foreign celestial body. Though there are international treaties that say, no government shall lay claim to geography off...
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The TSA and Helper Monkeys →
(via JZ)
Scotland
T: made it to Scotland... the entire trip was easy until I got into the right side of our rental car and had to drive it on the left side of the road through Edinburgh... Fucking terrifying.
S: You've got to drive on the left in order to keep your sword hand free
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Consumer's Guide To Health Overhaul →
Time to read up!
Neighborhood pride drives Divisadero rebirth →
yes sir, we have pride.
gawkertv:
When you’re curled up against the toilet trying to sober up later on this evening, don’t say we didn’t warn you. In honor of St. Patrick’s day, we present to you the ultimate collection of the drunkest people falling down!
(via Gawker.TV)
It’s been a while since I’ve been this kind of drunk. A whole 3 days, I think!
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the psychology of heroism
runningdive:
“…..Of all the virtues, heroism is now the most remote. Heroes are either mythic or historical characters (Achilles or Gandhi) or they are superhuman (Spider-Man, or even 9/11 firefighters).
What they are not is one of us. Our age has role models and it has celebrities, but it has no room for heroes…….”
The Guardian
Left out the best line, in regards to fighting a...
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An artifact
Ha. So at SxSW 2004 (maybe 2005) I set this calendar alert for march 15, 2010 (today!) while sitting in the “future of web technologies” panel. I think the panelists asked us to do so. The alert appeared in my inbox this morning, and it asks, “are you still using css3? flash? ie6?”. Still using CSS3. So hopeful. I believe XHTML was still really, really hot and xforms...
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Reblog the artist that brought you to "Hip Hop"
thetenssf:
loudminority:
resunsaysdope:
kickpusher:
elfotografo:
Little Brother
Mos Def.
Notorious B.I.G. or more formally introduced by my father, Eric B and Rakim
Public Enemy
Winning the single Jam On It by Newcleus at a carnival. Also, The Fat Boys.
While I heard the Run DMC first, Digital Underground is what really brought it home.
Hella way to describe massive numbers →
Hella (1027) awesome.
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How Not to Depict a War - Lens Blog - NYTimes.com →
nickdouglas:
An Iraq War photographer explains the egregious mistakes in “The Hurt Locker” that make it an unrealistic depiction of the Iraq War.
While I like the movie, I agree with this part of the article the most:
While many have praised the movie as anti-war, I believe — in a counter-intuitive way — that it glamorizes war.
Sgt. James is meant to be an anti-hero, for sure, but the way...